H-E-B is planning a $20 million remodel and expansion of its longtime Tomball Parkway store, setting up another chapter for a grocery destination that has already evolved through storewide improvements and the rise of curbside shopping.
The project targets the existing H-E-B at 28520 Tomball Parkway, near Graham Drive. For regular shoppers, the significance is straightforward: the retailer plans to enlarge and renovate a familiar store, rather than simply add another address to its regional directory.
There is also a local detail that predates the filing. When Tomball gathered public input for its comprehensive-plan update in January 2024, the wish list included requests for a larger H-E-B. Now a registered expansion gives that interest a concrete development to follow.
H-E-B expansion planned for the existing Tomball store
The new state construction registration, TABS2027001739, identifies H-E-B Store #0574 and describes a remodel with expansion of the existing store. It lists an estimated $20 million construction value and pb2 architecture + engineering as the design firm.
Projected construction runs from March 1, 2027, through April 28, 2028. Those are estimated work dates, not an announced reopening or customer-facing completion date.
The filing reports 96,237 square feet, but it does not break out the addition’s size. That figure should not be read as 96,237 square feet of new space. A detailed plan is still needed to establish how much the building would grow and how the expanded store would be arranged.
H-E-B’s official store directory confirms this is the Tomball Pkwy and Graham location, corporate store #574. It already offers curbside pickup, delivery, fuel and a drive-thru pharmacy, alongside grocery departments ranging from produce and bakery to meat, seafood and prepared food.
Those existing services help explain the store’s role in everyday errands. They are not confirmed new additions to this expansion, and the filing does not identify new departments or changes to those services.
Tomball residents had asked for a larger H-E-B
At the city’s Jan. 30, 2024, planning open house, participants could describe the businesses they wanted to see in Tomball. The official event summary recorded both “New larger HEB” and “New HEB” among the written responses.
More than 50 people attended the event. The comments were individual contributions to a planning exercise, not a representative poll or a formal city directive. They nevertheless offer a specific glimpse of community interest before the current expansion became public through its construction registration.
There is no evidence linking those comments to H-E-B’s decision. Their value is local context: some residents were already thinking about additional grocery options and a larger store.
An H-E-B property with a longer retail history
The location’s history reaches back beyond the current full-size supermarket. Houston Historic Retail’s account of the area describes an earlier H-E-B Pantry Foods in a former Gibson’s Discount Center building, beside an Academy store occupying a former Safeway.
According to that account, H-E-B later replaced the Pantry Foods operation with a larger supermarket built behind the earlier location. The older retail buildings eventually gave way to parking serving the full-size store.
That history gives the new project a different setting from a grocery store rising on an undeveloped tract. This is an established shopping property that has changed as the retailer’s format and surrounding retail landscape changed.
The exact opening date of the replacement supermarket has not been independently confirmed. The stronger documented timeline comes from later construction records, which show repeated investment at this same address.
Earlier H-E-B projects brought remodeling and curbside work
In 2016, H-E-B registered a wall-to-wall remodel at 28520 Tomball Parkway with an estimated construction value of $1.7 million. That record is now marked closed.
Two years later, a separate curbside remodel registration listed $200,000 in work at the same store. That project record is also closed.
The sequence shows an existing store being adapted over time: broad interior work, a project centered on curbside service, and now a substantially larger planned investment that expressly includes expansion.
The three filings cover different scopes and years, so their costs are not directly comparable measures of construction inflation. Nor do they establish that the new project will replace everything installed during earlier work.
For shoppers, the curbside chapter is particularly relevant. This store already serves people walking its aisles and customers collecting orders outside. The next remodel will take place at a location where both shopping patterns are established, although the filing does not explain whether pickup operations will change.
What remains to be revealed in Tomball
The expansion is identified, but the shopping experience it will create is not yet fully described. Public information reviewed for this story does not establish the addition’s dimensions, a new department lineup, an expanded pharmacy, a restaurant component or a revised parking layout.
There is also no confirmed construction-phasing plan or announcement establishing whether any temporary closure would be necessary. A projected construction window alone cannot answer those questions.
What is clear is the direction of the investment. H-E-B is preparing to put significant new work into an existing Tomball grocery destination, building on a history of changes at the property. For residents who have watched the store evolve—and those who have asked for something larger—the next step is learning what that expansion will bring inside.